The Junior Varsity


	Wednesday, September 24th, 2003 posted by Nick The new CD is nearly complete. Andy and I will be going to Chicago to finish the mixing this week and then the record will be sent to West West Side Music to be mastered by Alan Douches . West West Side has such credits as: Thrice, Brand New, From Autumn to Ashes, Recover, Further Seems Forever, Run DMC, Cave In and most importantly Dillinger Escape Plan. We are all very excited to hear the finished project. To tide everyone over, we have posted a sampler of a few of the songs on the album. Give it a listen! The Junior Varsity Sampler (right click save as) Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 posted by Andy Thanks so much to everyone that came out to the show at the Metro. We were honestly surprised at how many people came for us on such short notice and being that it was probably a long drive! Thanks again! Our good friend Chris McCabe has been cool enough to start a street team for us in the Chicagoland area. To join, all you need to do is email and he will take care of everything for ya. Soon, we will have demo CDs, stickers, fliers, etc. to have people pass out. Thanks to everyone that has joined so far. We never dreamed we'd have a street team let alone people that actually DID stuff for it!!! Wednesday, August 20th, 2003 So the album is done being recorded and we're quite happy with the way it has turned out. Also, the show at the Fireside was probably one of the best shows we've ever gotten to play. Thanks to everyone that came out and liked us even though you had never heard of us! We're extremely thankful to Bryan, Dan and Chuck at British Records for giving us the opportunity to have so much studio time with a great producer. We absolutely couldn't have done it without them. In other words, we just got added to a show at the METRO in Chicago on Thursday, September 4th with the Red Hot Valentines, University, and Midwest Blue. Words can't describe how excited we are about this. Thanks Bryan and Dan (manager of RHV) for getting us on the show. We've wanted to play there for YEARS!!! You can print out a ticket for the show and go for free if you arrive before 6:30pm: PRINT THIS TICKET TO GET IN FOR FREEEEE! Sunday, August 10th, 2003 Yo everyone. We are still in the studio right now and are having a great time. We get to party every night with Vote Toby and record all day with Lance Reynolds who is quite a cool dude. We just got word recently that we will be playing the FIRESIDE BOWL in CHICAGO on Saturday, August 16th with Allister (Drive Thru) and August Premier (Fueled By Ramen). The show should be quite huge, especially for us. We're really stoked about the show. Thanks to Bryan for getting us on! Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003 The Junior Varsity's first live video is now ready to be downloaded. Nick and Derrick (old webmaster) worked on it all day long yesterday and we are quite proud of it! You can download it here: The Junior Varsity Live Video- Introduction to the Faint Remembrance of a Dead and Dying Dream (right click save as) If you liked the song in the video you can download the demo verion right here: The Junior Varsity demo - Introduction to the Faint Remembrance of a Dead and Dying Dream (right click save as) Also Dont forget!! August 1st Amevets 5$ Jacksonville, IL PARK The Junior Varsity 8 Miles from Denver Farewell to Twilight Last Words Sunday July 21st, 2003 Things have been pretty laid back lately for us since we are trying to get ourselves ready to record in a couple weeks. We've only been playing shows close in our area. Thanks to everybody that came out on July 18th to the Jacksonville show! We know the CB club is a shithole, but we really appreciate you guys putting up with it! We're playing a huge Jacksonville show on AUGUST 1st WITH PARK, 8MFD, LAST WORDS, AND FAREWELL TO TWILIGHT AT THE AMVETS. Everyone needs to go. We will most likely be leaving DIRECTLY after the show to head to chicago to record for 3 weeks. Our recording plans are finally definite. We are recording at Dam Recording Studio and Lance Reynolds (NIL8, Alkaline Trio, Braid) will be the producer. Thanks for everyone's support. Click here to check out the studio. Sunday June 15th, 2003 We're back from tour and have some thank yous. First off, thanks to Mike Ingram of the Broadside Beat for the show in Cinci. Thanks to Frank from the band Oh Jonah in Valperaiso Indiana for the show and a special thanks to his parents for taking care of us when we were sick and for taking care of our sick van. NO thanks to Midgard Comics in Columbus. Thanks to Dave from the band League out of Buffalo, New York for a place to crash for a few nights. Thanks to Adam Nimmo in Toronto who got us three shows within a week. That was truly amazing. Thanks to the band SelfMadeMan for the show in Montreal as well as places to stay and parties to go to. Thanks to the band Moneen out of Toronto for helping us out and thanks to Lisa for the place to stay. Thanks to Sean Gordon for helping us with a couple shows in Connecticut and New Jersey. Thanks to Sarah in Atlanta for hooking us up with a show. Thanks so so much to Amanda at White Rice Booking for hooking us up with shows in Buffalo and in Birmingham. We really appreciate your help. Lastly, thanks to Chad Cline for putting on a great show back in Danville, IL. Sorry if I left anybody out. It was not done on purpose! Check back periodically for some new pictures and many new summer dates. In case anyone's curious yet, the album is still slated to be recorded in August and most likely released in November or December. Wednesday May 14th, 2003 Our tourdates are finally being finalized so check the shows page to see if we are coming to an area near you. By tonight, there will be many new pictures uploaded to the site as well as some new merch. Thanks to everyone that came out to the Quincy show last Friday. We had a great time and were very surprised at the number of supporters we had. Be sure to check out our bios page to see a recent addition to The Junior Varsity. woof woof. Sunday April 13, 2003 The show on April 11th in Jacksonville was awesome. All the bands were great and the crowd was great as usual. Thanks to all of you that came from the surrounding areas like Quincy and Springfield. The Junior Varsity played in its first battle of the bands on Saturday with eight bands and won. We have another battle of the bands coming up and hopefully we can do the same and bring our record to 2-0. Sunday April 6, 2003 Hey everyone! AbsolutePunk.net has posted some stuff about The Junior Varsity. We will be doing an interview with them in the next few days as well. Click here to see! Friday April 4, 2003 We have lots more shows posted as well new pictures. In other news, Asa broke his arm last week. Since it's his right arm, he can still play the bass thankfully! If you care to know how Asa broke his arm, email him and ask him. (It's on the contact page) Click here to see Asa's broken arm! Click here to see Sergio's old band. Boy was he cool! Sunday March 30, 2003 Well we played our first Chicago show in this band's existence. We pay 40 dollars in gas to get there. We make a good ammount of wrong turns in Chicago which turns the trip into 5 hours instead of 4. We finally find the place and are immediately told we have to pay 8 dollars just to park there and we're in the band. Later, we have to pay another 8 dollars because of our trailer. So now, we're out 56 dollars. We go on stage and play for about an hour before the people are thoroughly sick of us and are making very rude comments to us. We go to load out and some people apparently called the cops on the bands for loading in near their garage so we have to cart all of our stuff through the middle of this bar to the front door and load right on some busy street in Chicago. We then go to see how much money we can get for the night. Nobody seems to have any money to pay us. Wonderful. We get in the van and leave this joke of a venue. We then pay another 40 dollars in gas. That was our experience in Chicago. Some people call it paying your dues but theres no reason a band should drive a total of 10 hours to lose over 100 dollars and to make no fans at all. I guess this is a lesson to everyone. Be careful and don't let people fuck you over. By the way, the venue is Coyles Tippling House but I'm pretty positive they didn't have anything to do with it. It was some sort of mysterious management company and a man by name of "Fabian" that nobody seemed to know much about. Beware of shit like this. Thursday March 20, 2003 Hey everyone. We haven't updated for a while because we have not had too much exciting news to post! Our recording plans have been changed. It is not certain what studio we'll be at but we will be produced by Jeremy Du Bois (Dashboard Confessional, Duvall, Seville, New Found Glory). He should do some amazing things for us. We are still trying to book our tour and should have many dates for May coming up soon. Keep checking back! We have a new page up on the St. Louis Punk Page. Go check it out to post some comments about us and see some different pictures. TJV St. Louis page. Tuesday February 25, 2003 Welcome to the new site. We hope you enjoy it! We want to thank everybody that came to the Jacksonville show on February 21st. It was one of the best local shows we have played in our existence. All of the bands were great and the crowd was wonderful. Thanks again! Monday Feb. 24, 2003 Just wanted to say that The Junior Varsity has officially signed with new Chicago record label, British Records America. TJV will be recording at the Chicago Recording Company (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, etc.) in June of 2003. The CD will be out around Christmas. Until then, check out the mp3s and keep downloading us and burning CDs for your friends: TJV mp3 page. Click here for a funny TJV moment!